Abstract

A multi-perspective cinematic story recounts a day in the life of four fictional characters. Story bits are distributed in space according to the characters point of view and in time, as the action progresses. collecting data at different locations and times, each person edits her own version of the story according to their passage through the space.

• Valentina Nisi is a researcher at MedialLabEurope with G.Davenport in the Storynetworks group, and Ph.D. candidate in the department of Computer Science of Trinity College Dublin (TCD) with Dr. M.Haahr, Her fascination lies within the use of wireless, networked and mobile technologies for telling stories in new ways. She researches how to design interactive and distributed narrative experiences in public places merging the real space with the narrative experience. Her current project is a distributed location based story about an old Dublin neighbourhood, incorporating the community feedback into the narrative database. The story is available to the public in form of media fragments wirelessly distributed the GPS enabled mobile devices tof the wandering audience. She holds an MSc in Multimedia Systems at TCD, First class Honour Fine Art Degree from the Albertine Academy of Fine Arts in Turin, and a Diploma in Classical Studies. Her work has been presented and published in festivals and conferences in Dublin and abroad.

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